A group of women in Lira district have embraced planting quick-maturing crops like eggplant, tomatoes, carrots, and cabbages all year round as an intervention to mitigate the effects of prolonged dry seasons.  During the dry season, the women collect water from ponds, boreholes or unprotected wells to irrigate their gardens using plastic bottles of mineral […]

The OLUM model is providing hope to refugees in Adjumani, empowering them to take control of their food security and livelihoods

Today, she distributes sunflower seeds to farmers and buys their harvest for oil pressing.

Plastic bottles, which would typically take a decade to decompose, can now be reused as valuable tools in drip irrigation systems.

The four-acre model is seen as the magic bullet for smallholder farmers who constitute the majority of the farming population in Uganda

Despite the growing importance of soil testing to enhance small-holder farmers’ (SHF) agricultural productivity, northern Uganda farmers’ rigidity in traditional farming practices, limited awareness, the relatively high cost of carrying out soil testing, and low penetration by private soil testing actors in remote areas have limited the accessibility of soil testing. The costs associated with […]

In the face of climate change and economic challenges, hybrid maize has become a vital tool for farmers in Lira, offering not only greater yields and income but also greater resilience against the shifting climate.

Amolatar is one of the districts participating in the Uganda Climate Smart Agricultural Transformation Project

Rwanda’s eastern province, where drought prevails, covers three central water bodies and catchments: Muvumba, Akagera Upper, and Akagera Lower.

The bishop launched a transformative tree planting and growing campaign to combat the growing impacts of climate change in the West Nile region.